The Looney Tunes crew have been entertaining kids and adult alike since the 1930s. From Bugs Bunny to Tweety Bird, every iconic character and catchphrase has continued to influence popular culture and animation. One of the major building blocks for cartoon humor, Looney Tunes breached storytelling barriers by breaking the fourth wall constantly, experimenting with surreal jokes, and taking some pretty impressive comedic risks.
The franchise is still a staple in the world of cartoons, with new spin-offs and movies still popping up. While everyone is excited for Space Jam 2, the television shows are the true backbone of the series.
10 Baby Looney Tunes
Baby Looney Tunes is exactly what it sounds like: baby versions of the classic characters learn and grow with each other while embarking on a series of misadventures with a few lessons in good morals along the way.
The show was aimed towards younger viewers and was on for a couple of years, lasting from 2001 to 2006. While not the most slapstick funny entry in the franchise, the characters are still adorable as babies.
9 Looney Tunes Cartoons
The most recent show in the Looney Tunes franchise, this nostalgia throwback is a return to the franchise's original form without being a full-blown remake. First released in 2020 on HBO Max, the show follows the "shorts" format that the original cartoons are so well known for.
It takes strong influence from the original humor of the old vignettes, all while updating the animation and references for current-day viewers. Many familiar faces are included and fans will recognize a lot of callbacks to the older shows. More episodes are being released this year.
8 Tiny Toon Adventures
Another show that featured younger characters, but with a bit of a twist. The characters were not younger iterations of their famous counterparts, but rather similar versions that attend the Acme Looniversity, a school that trains the next generation of Looney Tunes to be funny.
The show lasted only a few years, but it was praised by critics and fans alike as a fresh approach to an old formula. A reboot is allegedly in the works as well.
7 The Looney Tunes Show
Not every show in the series has been a knee-slapping joke fest. The Looney Tunes Show ran from 2011 to 2014, but despite the short life span, the show is still one of the biggest risks Warner Bros. ever took with the characters. The animators changed things up with the character designs, placed them in a modern city setting, and wrote stories and jokes revolving around dating, working, and living in an apartment with roommates.
No doubt a change of pace from shoving firecrackers down each other's mouths. The series received mixed reviews for these shifts, but the show is still popular to this day and is destined to become a cult classic.
6 The Porky Pig Show
One of multiple "shorts anthology" shows that the Looney Tunes crew put out, this one was centered on the enduringness of Porky Pig. The show revolved around Porky Pig introducing his audience to three cartoon shorts, many of which involved him as a central character.
The show only lasted for a few years in the 1960s but helped to bring the classic shorts to a younger generation.
5 Taz-Mania
Taz, the Tasmanian devil, is a fan favorite, beloved for his chaotic babbling and destructive spinning. Although often an antagonist in the early cartoons, Taz was given his own show in 1991, which followed the lunatic on his misadventures around the land known as Tazmania.
The show's humor was similar to other cartoons of the era, such as Freakazoid and Animaniacs, with tongue-in-cheek jokes and plenty of fourth wall breaks.
4 Duck Dodgers
Daffy Duck even got his own show in 2003, rehashing his role as Duck Dodgers, the futuristic galactic space hero who has sworn to protect the universe despite his egotistical ways. Joining him is a familiar cast of characters, updated for the 24th and a half century.
The jokes were quick-witted and the science fiction spaceship setting actually worked quite well as a concept. It even featured a theme song by Tom Jones and The Flaming Lips. Unfortunately, it wasn't on for very long, lasting only three seasons.
3 The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
In a formula change-up, Sylvester and Tweety teamed up with Granny and her bulldog, Hector, to travel around the world solving mysteries. It might seem like a lot on paper, but the physical comedy, cool locations, and extensive cameo appearances make the show a winner.
Like many other spinoffs, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries only lasted a few years, but the creators still managed to pack a lot of episodes into the five seasons it was on. A similar show called Tweety Mysteries was recently announced that will involve Tweety solving mysteries in a similar fashion.
2 The Road Runner Show
What would Looney Tunes be without Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner? Always plotting and always failing, Wile E. Coyote is perhaps the most predictable cartoon of all time, and yet remains one of the most entertaining thanks to its inventive animation and surreal humor.
The Road Runner Show, which ran from 1966 to 1973, was another anthology show that showcased the classic shorts featuring the best of the iconic duo.
1 The Bugs Bunny Show
The Bugs Bunny Show was essentially the epitome of the classic era of Looney Tunes. Considered one of the most popular Saturday morning cartoons ever, the show was a repackaging of the best of the best of the old shorts, with short sequences featuring Bugs and Daffy joking around interweaved between.
While the name of the show changed over the years, it lasted a whopping forty years on television. Perhaps proof that nothing ever truly beats the original.